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    Nicole Giannecchini Sharon Ketchum Health 104 14 Oct 2014 Gerrold Greenberg states that “Heart attacks kill more Americans than any other single cause of death.” This is because of the stress that is put on americans nowadays. It should be no surprise that other countries have an increased percentage of those who have Coronary Heart Disease. The believed reason that Coronary Heart Disease has increased is stress. Stress can impact the body in a very negative ways. Among many other things it can

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    development of coronary heart disease in coaches. Additionally, it will help educate high school coaches, how to better understand the importance of how stress can affect their heart health. Most studies have focused on the role of depression, as being an independent risk factor for the development of coronary heart disease in the general population (Barth, Schumacher, & Herrmann-Lingen, 2004). Although evidence suggests that anxiety also has an adverse impact on prognosis in coronary heart disease, the role

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    Coronary heart disease is a long-term degenerative disease that starts at birth. Coronary heart disease is a leading public health problem in the UK in terms of the economic burden from the disease placed on the NHS. The average cost of a hospital admission for a CVD event is estimated to be £4,614 . The largest contributor to the growing economic problem is the treatment of heart diseases, such as CHD as more than £6.8 billion was spent on treating cardiovascular disease within the NHS in England

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    suffers from any Acute Coronary syndrome that live in remote and rural areas have a worse off affect due to the distance it would be to a main hospital, however those living in metropolitan areas have a higher chance of survival. It is one of Australia’s biggest health problems. ‘Coronary heart disease kills one Australian every 27 minutes and claimed the lives of 19,777 people in 2015, that averages out to be nearly 12% of all deaths was due to Coronary Heart disease.’ (Heart Foundation, 2017) STEMI

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    shift in the cranium, and expressive aphasia. Pt also had Coronary Heart Disease (CAD). According to Med line, in its article, Coronary Heart Disease, it states that CAD causes are when the arteries have become hardened and narrowed and the blood flow is restricted. The causes could be a buildup of cholesterol, plaque in the inner walls of the arteries stopping blood getting to the heart muscle depriving it of oxygen. This could result in a heart attack or angina (Med line, n.d.).

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    on staff, there has to be more incentives to live a healthier a life which will lead to a definite improvement. One of the possible ways to do this is to develop different methods to approach Coronary heart disease. A plausible solution is to change the patient’s priority depending on whether their disease was or was not self-inflicted. This would create an incentive for the public to change their own lifestyle for the better. The variation between patients would involve distinguishing between patients

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    as you interacted and dialogued about infectious diseases and surveillance systems. As usual, I would like to summarize some comments that in my view, spoke to why we need to track and monitor infectious or other diseases. Here goes: One thing that is evident in both of these cases is that one of the major risk factors is living in a low income area. The questions that arise from this are: what is occurring in these areas that is leading to disease, and what can we do as a community to mitigate these

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    The term “cardiovascular disease” is often used reciprocally with the term “heart disease.” Cardiovascular disease broadly refers to the disease involving the heart and blood vessels. It generally includes diseases such as, heart attack, stroke, congestive heart failure and many others. Indeed, CVD affects the heart and it’s main functions such as the cardiovascular system, the pulmonary circulation and the systematic circulation. The pulmonary circulation’s main function is to pump oxygen-poor blood

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    Coronary artery disease (CAD), also known as coronary heart disease, is the leading cause of mortality in both men and women in the United States today. It has been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that CAD accounted for nearly 616,000 deaths in 2011 and was responsible for 1 in 4 deaths in the U.S. in the same year. 1 Coronary artery disease is a progressive disease where the major arterial vessels supplying the heart become occluded and sclerotic due to the buildup of

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    Atherosclerotic Coronary Heart Disease: Risk Factors and Roles Coronary heart disease(CHD) describes the condition of the coronary arteries obstructing due to fatty material build up called ‘plaque’ or ‘atheroma’(1). Atherosclerosis is the condition of excessive discharge of fatty plaques and nodules within the artery, and in the tissue forming the artery wall(2). Multiple risk factors including abnormal lipids, hypertension, diabetes, smoking, obesity, psychosocial factors, and varying consumption

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